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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Inspiration struck today in the form of memories; stirred by the sight of a single engine plane accidentally crashing into a New York building and further cemented by yet another news story on North Korea's testing of nuclear weapons.
Reality has been harsh today, to say the least.

What can we do?
It started me thinking.

Imagine a day like this.......

You turn on your computer, crank up Blogger or Typepad or Wordpress and you realize that something is very strange.
Someone or something is playing a huge cosmic joke.

Wouldn't it be AWESOME if on one particular day......

All bloggers everywhere signed their blog name across a globe and all posted the SAME POST on the SAME DAY......

What IF.......
every person who clicked through the blogospheresaw hundreds -even thousands- of posts that said the SAME THING?

What IF.......

every post on November 7, 2006 was simply titled "Dona Nobis Pacem" with a picture of our big beautiful world in the body of the post with each blogger's name screaming a great big GRANT US PEACE?

The Peace Globe

What if......

we added the power of the written word - and our blog names - to the face of our world?
A world that Rhys from A World of Bloggers has already envisioned as intertwined A world that Lizza and Irene take the time to share with us through pictures and beautiful sentiments
A world that Frank saw as having grand artistic potential and merit by inviting people to swipe their blog souls in crayon on a wall

A world, much of which I've never seen, that many of you create for me with words

A world that so many of us have already begun to realize is smaller than we ever imagined

When something catastrophic happens in your neighborhood, I, as your blogger friend and colleague, can draw your hurt a little closer to my own understanding. Politics, religion, rhetoric and rant make no difference to me in the

cyber cul-de-sac.
We are comrades in community. A mouse click away from visiting a friend, sharing a cup of coffee over a good read, debating, learning, growing.Can we affect change by sending a silly graphic around the globe with childlike scribblings and paint-by-number glee?
Will it really matter?

I can only answer for myself.

And if I believe that words are powerful -

then this matters.

If you'd like to help me get the word out, please email. Or simply link this post on your site, in your emails, mention it in your comments. Tell people to save the blank picture above (right-click, save, open in a photo editing program to write or draw on) and simply post it as their daily post on November 7, 2006.

Don't feel obligated to participate but it would be AWESOME if you did. You don't have to write about world peace that day but it would be INCREDIBLE if you did. Did I mention AWESOME before? (I'm more than a little excited about this. Can you tell?)

Great idea. I like doing these kinds of mass interactive things via my blog as well. Would be great if lots of people did and a culture was created of inner peace = world peace ... fun ... creative interaction ... positive vibes. Will spread the word. (Found your blog through Reeholio's blog via Topics from 192 countries)

I'm in, Mimi!! Bear with me while I navigate my personal blogger HELL to try and upload to my blog...and 11/7/06, you can count on my post (I'll need a reminder...I'm so scattered these days, LOL, So I'll have to create something to remind me!)

OK, Mimi, Kat told me you could walk my internet inept body through the process here. How do I get this on my blog - and send to you? I can copy it - but no idea how to sign it, or post it to my blog. I have a Mac. Thanks!

You can count Emma, Benji, Marley, Dante and Sammie (the woofie) in on posting the Peace globe on Emma's blog and I'll also post it on my site, Kat's Cat! I'll be emailing you soon! This is great! Wow!